Peter J Burns III

Peter J. Burns III is a renowned serial entrepreneur with a remarkable track record in establishing and operating niche-market, multi-location businesses. With a career spanning 48 years, which began when he was just 19 years old, Burns has founded, acquired, and expanded over 150 individual businesses across various industries.

Peter Burns’ career in entrepreneurship began with his business plan developed in a fourth-year entrepreneurship class at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce, where he enrolled as a first-year student. That summer (1977), Burns took his business plan and implemented it on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, opening up Nantucket Moped. In a 20-year span, Burns created the largest recreational rental chain in the world, eventually opening more than 100 locations around the U.S. and the Caribbean.

In addition to being a founding member of the world’s largest entrepreneurs organization, at age 29, he was the youngest participant in the history of Harvard Business School’s Owners and Presidents Management Program. Along with the long list of accomplishments, Burns has been featured in scores of publications, radio interviews, and television including The Arizona Republic, CNN, Fox Business, Entrepreneur Magazine, the Phoenix Business Journal, The State Press, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal.